More Bad Poverty News
This particular study is written up by Brad Hershbein over at Brookings, and the findings are short, simple, and important.
While some folks accept that a person from a rich family and a person from a somewhat-less-rich family won't be put on a level playing field by a college degree, they'll at least enjoy the same sort of boost from that education. But Hershbein's research says, no, that's not how it works. This chart spells it out--
(FPL is Federal Poverty Level)
In other words, a BA helps rich kids get way richer, while a BA helps poor kids get only just a little bit less not-poor.
As I said, this is not exactly news. A Johns Hopkins study over twenty-five years in Baltimorecemented the importance of family-of-origin. Robert Putnam wrote an entire book about how CURMUDGUCATION: More Bad Poverty News:
